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mouth of the hive, and give them liberty. The 

 operator must observe Rule 6 in using the slides 



REMARKS. 



The prosperity of every colony depends en- 

 tirely on the condition of the Queen, when the 

 season is favorable to them. 



Every bee-master should understand their 

 nature in this respect, so as to enable him to 

 be in readiness to supply them with another 

 Queen when they chance to become destitute. 



The discovery of the fact, that bees have 

 power to change the nature of the grub (lar- 

 va) of a worker to that of a Queen, is attribu- 

 ted to Bonner. But neither Bonner nor the 

 indefatigable Huber, nor any other writer, to 

 my knowledge, has gone so far in the illustra- 

 tion of this discovery as to render it practica- 

 ble and easy for common people to avail them- 

 selves of its benefits. 



The Vermont hive is the only one, to my 

 knowledge, in which bees can be compelled 

 to make and keep extra Queens for the use 

 of their owner, without extreme difficulty, as 



